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Re: if you will excuse me

- it's a normal collocation. It's not really a conditional at all, although - with the 'if' - it looks like one. When someone says 'If you will excuse me, I have to go now' he is going to go - and the going is not conditional on anyone's permission. He doesn't mean '...and if you don't excuse me, I will magically not have to go'.